Description: A significant study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book establishes her as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape.
Brief description: Professor Daniel Katz teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program at Warwick University. His research mostly focuses on modernism and its aftermath extending to the present day, with a special interest in poetry and poetics. His latest book is The Poetry of Jack Spicer with recent articles and chapters including "Translation and the American modernist novel ", "Jack Spicer" and further articles on Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Ben Lerner, and Peter Gizzi. He has been an Executive Board member of the Samuel Beckett Society, and co-director of Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. He is the Founding Editor of the book series "Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics" and is currently at work editing a volume of Jack Spicer's uncollected poetry, prose, and drama-much of which is previously unpublished in any form.
Review Quotes:
"Eleanor Careless provides a valuable contribution to scholarship of a neglected but extremely important poet and cultural figure. It is required reading." --David Grundy, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
"...a compelling and intellectually ambitious archival study that reaches well beyond a single-author recovery project...This superbly achieved historical and theoretical discussion and often very moving account of Mendelssohn's life and oeuvre is also timely, in conversation with scholar-activist debates on the enduring legacies of and resistance to fascism, the power of the archive, and abolitionism. " --University English book prize shortlist 2026 "...a scrupulous and expansive perspective...Careless's study stands as a far-reaching,meticulous and compelling example to follow." --George Clutterbuck, Critical Quarterly